Month: August 2023

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say a resident who fatally shot a University of South Carolina student who tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street last weekend was justified in his actions. Police in Columbia say 20-year-old student Nicholas Anthony Donofrio died early Saturday after knocking, banging, and kicking on the front

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump defended his real estate empire and his presidency in a face-to-face clash with the New York attorney general suing him for fraud, testifying at a closed-door grilling in April that his company is flush with cash — and claiming he saved “millions of

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mothers of some of 111,000 people who have disappeared in Mexico over decades of violence are marking the International Day of the Disappeared with protests and demands that the government do more to locate their loved ones. Most of those missing are believed to have been

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — The country’s largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking union workers have reached a tentative agreement that could end a two-month strike that saw about 1,400 people walk off the job at its Pennsylvania plant. Pittsburgh-based Wabtec announced the agreement with Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press A Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks to cope with unhealthy air after wildfires knocked out electricity and choked the remote region with smoke. Last week flames came within about 5 miles of Pelican Bay State Prison, but officials say

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, CHRISTINE FERNANDO and ALI SWENSON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was asked during last week’s GOP presidential debate whether he would support nationwide abortion restrictions, he instead offered a startling anecdote. “I know a lady in Florida named Penny,” he said. “She survived multiple abortion attempts.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The outer bands of Hurricane Franklin are lashing Bermuda as the Category 2 storm charges past the island located in the north Atlantic Ocean. Franklin had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and was located some 145 miles north-northwest of Bermuda late Wednesday afternoon. It was moving northeast at

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell appeared to briefly freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event in Kentucky on Wednesday, weeks after he had a similar episode in Washington. As seen on video from a local news station, the

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has condemned Israel’s airstrike on the international airport of the northern city of Aleppo earlier this week putting it out of service saying such attacks will eventually face retaliation. Hossein Amirabdollahian made his comments during a joint news conference with his Syrian counterpart

HATFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man who trafficked “ghost guns” and silencers he assembled at his home in a Philadelphia suburb has been charged along with two friends. Montgomery County authorities said Wednesday that 32-year-old Tony Phan Ho and 36-year-old Ritha Ngoy, both of Hatfield, and 32-year-old Michael Phan Nguyen, of Lansdale, are

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — China has lashed out at the United States, saying a U.S. military transfer to Taiwan is a violation of U.S. commitments under its “one-China” policy. The statement comes after the Biden administration approved the first-ever U.S. military transfer to Taiwan under a program generally reserved for

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Republican wants exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability. Viability is typically around 24 weeks. Corley also proposed allowing abortions

YURAS KARMANAU TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A representative of the Polish community in Belarus says a former correspondent for a top Polish newspaper has been denied life-saving heart medication in a Belarusian prison. Andrzej Poczobut has been placed in solitary confinement with no access to lawyers or medical care, according to the Union of Poles

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gusty winds and low humidity have brought a high risk of wildfires to the interior of Northern California. Pacific Gas & Electric proactively cut electricity early Wednesday to about 8,400 customers in small parts of eight counties, mostly in the western Sacramento

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State and Tennessee will meet in an exhibition basketball game to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Michigan State announced Wednesday that it will play the Volunteers on Oct. 29 at the Breslin Center. All proceeds will